Nomination is part of the process of selecting a candidate for either election to an office, or the bestowing of an honor or award. A collection of nominees narrowed from the full list of candidates is a short list.

CentralNic is a domain registry and registry service provider based in London, England that currently manages the .la and .pw extensions, and is the back-end provider for sixty new top-level domain applications. It also offers subdomains under the following second level domains:

• .ae.org: for United Arab Emirates
• .ar.com: Argentina
• .br.com: Brazil
• .cn.com: China
• .com.de: Germany
• .de.com: Germany
• .eu.com: European Union
• .gb.com: Great Britain
• .gb.net: Great Britain
• .gr.com: for Group, Greece, Grand Rapids / USA
• .hu.com: Hungary
• .jpn.com: Japan
• .jp.net: Japan
• .kr.com: Korea
• .no.com: Norway
• .qc.com: Quebec
• .ru.com: Russia
• .sa.com: Saudi Arabia
• .se.com: Sweden
• .se.net: Sweden
• .uk.com: United Kingdom
• .uk.net: United Kingdom
• .us.com: United States
• .uy.com: Uruguay
• .za.com: South Africa